After years of legal efforts, a full scale review of Harry’s security in the U.K. is currently underway

Prince Harry when he was last in the U.K. on official business in Sept. 2025.Credit : Karwai Tang/WireImage

Prince Harry has had a major win in his ongoing bid to restore his official U.K. security.

A full scale review of his security by the official body that assesses how royals and VIPs are guarded is now under way by the U.K. government, it was reported on Monday, Dec. 8.

It follows Harry’s long-running and high profile campaign to reinstate his full taxpayer-funded security.

The U-turn by the government, reported by The Sun, said that evidence had already started to be collected from the Duke of Sussex’s team, police and government and that any decision will be made known in January. Harry’s spokesperson declined to comment.

In a statement PEOPLE, a U.K. government spokesperson said that “The UK Government’s protective security system is rigorous and proportionate. It is our long-standing policy not to provide detailed information on those arrangements, as doing so could compromise their integrity and affect individuals’ security.”

Prince Harry at the high court in London during the appeal of his case in April, 2025.Carl Court/Getty

The Duke of Sussex, 41, has repeatedly stated that without security cover, he is unable to bring his wife, Meghan Markle, 44, and their two children, Prince Archie, 6, and Princess Lilibet, 4, to the country of his birth — and says he doesn’t feel safe doing so.

The development on Dec. 8, could pave the way for Harry to be able to bring his children, who are being raised in California, to the U.K. to be reunited with his father King Charles.

Harry saw his father in September for the first time in 19 months when he was visiting the U.K. — something that was seen as a “massive step” forward in their estrangement, which had been worsened by the security issue.

Full security cover was removed after Harry and Meghan stepped back from frontline royal duties in 2020. The Prince lost an appeal in May. It emerged during that case that he and Meghan, 44, and the family had not had an assessment since 2019.

In October, he wrote to the British government minister in charge of policing and crime prevention in Britain, the Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood, to make a personal appeal.

Prince Harry arriving at his father King Charles’ London residence, Clarence House, on Sept. 10, 2025.Ben Montgomery/Getty

The Home Office oversees the special body that handles decisions over the security of royals, diplomats and VIPS, the Royal and VIP Executive Committee (RAVEC). It is that committee — which has members from the government, the Metropolitan Police and courtiers from the royal household — which requests risk assessments for specific individuals.

In an interview, in May, following the failure of his appeal, Harry implied to the BBC that he believed his father, King Charles, could influence matters. (The palace has consistently denied that the King, 77, has the power to have that security reinstated.)

Harry and Meghan and their children at their onetime U.K. home Frogmore Cottage in Windsor.Netflix/Youtube

The issue has been a huge hindrance to any rapprochement with his father, who didn’t feel he could speak to Harry during the legal process, due to being the head of state in whose court Harry was fighting. But after the case finished in May, Harry and Charles met up at Clarence House in London on Sept. 10. There, Harry gifted his father with a framed picture of Archie and Lilibet.